301118 - New Profile required-Old profile inaccessible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253950

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[trishcampie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Profile prompt appeared when trying to launch program.
Default profile unable to launch because it was "already in use". No access to 
default profile or prefernces therein. New profile required to access the
browser. All prior preferences inaccessible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch the browser
2.Goes to Firefox site
3.Old preferences and bookmarks gone



Expected Results:  
The default profile should always be used unless requested otherwise by the user.
Prompt to create new profile and inaccessiblity to default profile is unexpected.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253950 ***

Comment 2

[jim natwick]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
> Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
> Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> 
> Profile prompt appeared when trying to launch program.
> Default profile unable to launch because it was "already in use". No access to 
> default profile or prefernces therein. New profile required to access the
> browser. All prior preferences inaccessible.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Launch the browser
> 2.Goes to Firefox site
> 3.Old preferences and bookmarks gone
> 
> 
> 
> Expected Results:  
> The default profile should always be used unless requested otherwise by the
> user.
> Prompt to create new profile and inaccessiblity to default profile is
> unexpected.
>